Alomitsu

Chapter 28: Studio City (14)

“Puff through.”

I fell on the thick and soft white sand. Even so, I slid forward for half a meter. The skin on my whole body was as painful as it was torn, and my mouth was full of sand.

The blue rat-headed figure was stunned by its unexpected visitor, and soon, they showed a terrible smile. On the other side was the red-robed old man lying on the stone pillar with spears all over his body.

“Mr. Dante, what are you doing here? Run away, these guys are a bunch of demons.”

Rui, I haven’t heard Rui’s voice for a long time. This made my head dizzy and thought it was false, but I was very aware that it was real.

This little guy didn’t say let me save him, but go escape. My Rui, are you still worried about others when this kind of life and death situation happens?

Cough cough~ I coughed up the sand in my mouth, which turned bright red with my blood stained on it.

“Stand up! Dante!” I roared, my arms resting on the sand, but my shaking body didn’t obey me at all.

“Mr. Dante, why are you here?” Rui’s anxious shout made me show an ugly smile.

“Uh ah ah ah ah!!!

“Uh ah ah ah!” I roared like a beast desperately trying to die.

I used my perseverance to stand on the sand and endure the pain, but my standing was like a reed swinging with the wind. As long as someone pushed me, I would fall.

“Rui, listen up. I, Dante, am not a coward. You have saved me. You gave me this life, otherwise I would have returned to God’s embrace in the storm of the sea.

“But I survived.

“My mentor once said.

“You must run away when you are in danger, you must run away when you are afraid, and you must ask for help when you are in danger.

“The most shameful thing is being afraid and indecisive. Let alone face my savior, as long as you survive, you must go to Constantine with me.” At that time, I couldn’t confirm that I came to another century, and I was still dreaming about reuniting with my family.

“You killed my daughter.

“You insult my queen.

“You!

“Die!” The giant-like white king took a heavy iron axe and stood up from the piles of blue rat heads like a huge beast.

“Rui catch it. Pick it up. Run away without turning around.” I threw a sharp stone, which I picked up in the wooden cart, in front of Rui.

Now, I was determined to make a desperate fight and use myself as a bait.

“Mr. Dante.” Rui lowered his head, his wrist-bound hand grabbed the stone and cut the hemp rope. He didn’t hesitate. There were no blue rat heads beside Rui, and these blue rat heads thought we were running away.

“Yes, Rui.

“You should do this, don’t waste any time I have won for you.” I smiled, and the next moment, I turned my head and stared at the dark blue rat head and the stupid king in front of me.

I couldn’t beat any of them. More so, when there were hundreds of them, but the pride of going to death emerged in my heart. This time, I was not running away, but really fighting, even though I was pitiful like a fly falling into the water.

For the first time, I lived. It was not an unbearable delusion that I would face a hundred. It was not an invincible vanity that was annoying. It was not a daydream.

I wanted to be my ideal self — a brave person. I was weak. I was as weak as chopsticks, but I still wanted to rise up and be like a strong hero.

I!

Reeves Dante!

Meet your challenge like a hero!

My eyes were blood-red, and my heart had never beaten so fast. I held onto the shells in my hand. This was what I grabbed while lying on the sand. Even if I took the poor big shells, I would hit them on the head.

“Kill the outsider. Cook him and offer him to Alomitsu.” The king swung the axe in his hand, and hundreds of blue ratheads rushed towards me. Their eyes had no human emotions. It only had the indifference of the dead.

I gasped with extreme heavy breath and tried my best not to let myself fall. There were so many of them that I couldn’t even stop them for even a second.

The few blue ratheads who rushed towards me stabbed at me with spears. I wanted to hide, but my body wouldn’t move.

“Go through.” He pushed me away with both hands. This was Rui. He rushed over. First, he pushed me away. He fell on the sand and the spear grazed Rui’s back. But when he fell, he was overwhelmed.

My toppled body was rolling on the sand, and my mind was blank.

Why did Rui not hesitate to give up his life to save me? Why wouldn’t he run away? With his strong body, he could escape.

“Go away, go away, you demons.” I heard Rui’s howling. He was still resisting.  What else can I do to save him just by relying on my current body?

At this moment, I thought of the horn. This horn might be useful. I yearn for a miracle.

I grabbed the sand-filled horn, and the air in my lungs went out at once.

Woo~~

The sound of the horn resounded across the night sky, but there was no response. It was just an ordinary horn.

“Go away.” Rui screamed, and I saw Rui’s arm being stepped on by the blue rathead. They didn’t kill Rui immediately, but tortured Rui instead.

I clenched my hand into a fist and grasped a handful of sand tightly, and my finger bones were so hard that they made a crisp “click” sound.

I can’t do anything, can I just watch Rui be trampled to death like this?

Even the so-called horn does not work.

“Run away, Mr. Dante,” Rui was still yelling.

“There must be a way, I believe. There must be a way.” I looked at the useless horn in my hand. This horn had a sharp pointed tip. There were blood troughs inside this pointed tip. Is it necessary to put blood into this horn?

“Ru~~~

“I~~~” I growled like a wild dog, and I put all this last fight on it.

I supported my body with my arms, biting my teeth full of blood, and stepped hard on my legs under the sand.

With tears in my eyes, I looked at the besieged Rui, and at this time, there were already a few blue ratheads approaching me.

“Alomitsu, I will never let you go. No matter where you are, I will fight you to the end. Rui, I will never abandon you.”

I inserted the horn straight into my thigh. The tearing pain made me open my mouth but couldn’t yell. I didn’t expect it to be so painful. I really couldn’t scream because of the pain. The blood on my thigh flowed into the blood groove of this horn. Flowing, the black horn morphed into a horn shining with blue light when it touched the blood.

I pulled the horn from my thigh and put the crystal clear blue horn into my mouth.

Woo~~~

The round spout of the horn spouted blue light, which made my arms tremble while holding the horn. Did it succeed?

A gust of wind blew up all over my body, and now my whole body was in pain, but I still blew the horn desperately, and I would never give up unless I completely blew the gap in my lungs.

The blue light shone like a mist, like a transparent silky ribbon floating from the horn. They surrounded this piece of sand, and the dark clouds in the night sky also surrounded the blue lightning.

The heavy sand blew away with blue light, and it was more like sand leaving by itself, and the damp stone slab appeared. Under the sand was an ancient palace stone slab.

Crack~

A blue shadow, wearing a worn-out armor, knelt up from the ground. One after another, these people wearing blue shadow armor once again picked up the blue shadow weapons scattered around.

As for the red-robed old man tied to the stone pillar, his body turned into a little bit of starlight and dissipated. After that, the blue light condensed, and a kind old man with a white beard appeared next to me. He held a staff with a crystal ball.

In a short period of time, hundreds of people wearing blue shadow armor gathered together in a formation.

The ratheads at the forefront were knocked away by the blue armored figure that appeared, and Rui was lying on the old stone slab with bruises.

Like the confrontation between the two armies before the battle, on my side was a three-meter-high old man with his blue shadow warrior. The king was standing four-meter high. Under him was a group of blue ratheads.

“Stupid king.”

“The criminal who betrayed the country.”

“For the people, I want to kill you!” The two roared at the same time, and blue lightning fell on the stone slab and left cracks.

Bang~

The horn in my hand burst. It seemed that it had fulfilled its mission. It might be made by this astrologer just to fight the king to the death in the future.

After blowing the horn, I fell onto the stone slab. At this moment, the huge astrologer was half kneeling beside me. He pulled a blue shadow from the ground and brought it close to me. I felt myself surrounded by a warm light.

My strength returned again, and I stood up from the sand and looked at my hands in shock. The injury to my hands was not healed, but I couldn’t feel the pain.

“Outsiders, you did well. This power can temporarily protect you, but it will not heal you. Before dawn, if you can’t escape, you and your friends will not be able to leave forever.” The astrologer spoke fluent Ancient Romanian. After he finished speaking, he looked at me with a benevolent look and turned to the king to show his anger.

I didn’t even say thank you because of the unknown power. I picked up the blue shadow shield on the slab and rushed towards the blue rathead. Rui’s situation was very dangerous, and I had no time thanking others.

“Rui!!”

Rui was still crawling on the ground, and my rush caused the war between the two sides to start at once.

Kang-kang-kang!

The blue shadow men in the front smashed their shields on the ground and erected a neat row to form a defensive wall. They stretched out their spears from the gap, while the blue shadow men in the back stepped on it. Those in the back leapt using those in the first row.

The blue ratheads rushed into the first row of shields like crazy beasts, and the blue shadow man who jumped out fought the blue shadow rathead.

I slammed the shield away from the blue shadow rathead behind Rui. The rathead that hit me made the shield in my hand make a “boom boom” sound. They were strong. It’s far different from the ones near the coconut. The rathead I encountered in the woods was simply not comparable to it.